A Chick-fil-A employee in Georgia helped save a child’s life Monday after she started choking while her mom was trying to order food in the fast food restaurant’s drive-thru.
Liliana Leahy and her daughter Theia were out shopping and decided to stop and grab lunch, the mother posted on Instagram Monday. Shortly after arriving at Chick-f, Theia began to choke.
Liliana jumped out of the driver’s seat of her car to help her daughter, who was “crying” and unable to breathe as she pointed to her mouth. When panic set in, she screamed for help, attracting the attention of Mia, a Chick-fil-A employee who “dropped everything and ran” over to them and began performing the Heimlich maneuver on Theia.
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After “a few stabs,” Theia coughed up the coin, Liliana said. “Shocked” by the incident, the mother added that she “cried and hugged” her daughter after it was all over.
“I can’t thank Mia enough for saving Theia,” Liliana wrote. “Today she was in the right place and didn’t hesitate for a second.”
The mother added that Theia is “now fine and chirping as usual”. She even asked for some ice cream, which the restaurant gave her.
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“We are so proud of Mia and grateful that she was able to help this sweet girl,” Truett’s Chick-fil-A in Newnan wrote on the company’s Facebook page.
Chick-fil-A did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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Liliana, meanwhile, also thanks God, who she said “took my steering wheel to turn” at Chick-fil-A on Monday.
The mum added that she believed God “knew” she should have been there at that moment and that it would have taken her “longer to find help” if she hadn’t stopped.
“It was less than a few minutes but it felt like forever,” she wrote on Instagram.
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